Ragamala-Pratidhwani

 

  

Utsav 2004
 
       
 

Dmitri Carter

Dmitri Carter has been performing professionally as a puppeteer since childhood and currently serves as Development Director and Associate Artist for Seattle’s internationally acclaimed Northwest Puppet Center.

During second and third grade, Dmitri lived in Romania and traveled throughout Europe picking up foreign languages and learning cultural traditions. Upon returning to Seattle, he attended Summit Alternative School where he and a few fellow students established the still successful pottery program. At age 16 Dmitri went on to attend college through the recently established Running Start program resulting in combined high school and college graduation, both with honors. In college, he served a term on student government and served on the tenure committee for the professor of cultural anthropology and ethnic studies. In 2003, Union Internationale de la Marionette awarded Dmitri one of only two International Scholarship Awards to conduct research in China on the ancient tradition of marionettes.


   Northwest Puppet Center became his full-time workplace in 1996 when Dmitri took on duties as House Manager and Assistant Business Manager. Later as Business Manager, Dmitri oversaw publicity/marketing, public relations, financial record keeping, project budgeting and performance arrangements both at the puppet center and touring venues. In 1999, NWPC’s Development Director retired so Dmitri switched to these responsibilities. In addition to fundraising, Dmitri also conducts research, curates exhibitions, teaches educational programs, writes articles, documents a variety of puppetry techniques with video and photography, designs publicity materials and still performs regularly. In 2002, Dmitri participated in the pilot session of “Technology Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders” after which NPower, one of the nation’s leading technology focused nonprofits, invited him to serve on the Advisory Committee.

Dmitri has also assisted with various outside projects including those of:
International Puppet Museum of Holon, Israel
Quanzhou Marionette Troupe, China
Venice Theatre Arts Festival, Italy
International Performing Arts Festival of Brasil
Zhangzhou Hand Puppetry School, China
Puppet Arts Festival of Segovia, Spain
Author - Virginia Pilegard, U.S.
 

For further information contact info@pratidhwani.org or call (425) 736-4652.